Nigerian secret police have accused a Biafra separatist group of killing 55 people after discovering their bodies in shallow graves in a thick forest in the country’s southeast.
The Department of State Service (DSS), Nigeria’s domestic spy agency, said the graves were found in Umuanyi forest in Abia state, home to the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) movement.
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It issued a statemant late Saturday accusing IPOB members of playing a “heinous role” in the abduction of five Hausa-Fulani residents, although the claims were dismissed by another Biafran group.
“The abducted men were later discovered at the Umuanyi forest, Abia state, where they were suspected to have been killed by their abductors and buried in shallow graves, amidst 50 other shallow graves of unidentified persons,” spokesman Tony Opuiyo said in the statement.
“Arrests and investigation conducted so far revealed that elements within the IPOB carried out this dastardly action,” he said.
IPOB was founded by Nnamdi Kanu, who is currently on trial for treason in a high-profile case in Abuja.
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